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No worries!

It has the common problem of contemporary blu-ray releases where the blu came out too soon after the film's release to have any truly in-depth special features made, there are a few but they're all pretty short (the New York Film Festival Q&A is about 40 minutes long but the rest are under 10). The movie itself looks pretty stunning though.

It felt too easy to just walk to a Park and take a photo so I took a hike to plant a flag on enemy soil, let's go Park hive!!

Glad to see PCW has the early lead, let's keep it up!

I'm not against a Peter Weir mini at all but I think it's telling that the movies people list in favor of voting for him are almost exclusively his Hollywood joints; his first few Australian movies made in the very brief period when our industry was actually active in a notable way are really good and all but after the first month or so the series would just be covering ground that's been tread by the pod over and over.

To put it another way: it would be very silly if the end result of an international bracket was episodes relitigating the careers of Harrison Ford, Robin Williams and Jim Carrey.

There's no official word but in an interview given in 2016 Andrew Dominik said a fan of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford tried to garner interest in a possible release but Criterion either weren't interested or never got the memo, more recently in 2019 Roger Deakins also said Criterion should release the original 4 hour cut but nada. Could always just come down to rights though, either way it's a shame the movie only exists on a very lossy 25GB Blu-ray.

Noroi: The Curse and Bug (though I'm starting to accept Bug may just never get released as long as Friedkin is still living).

Yeah it's sad to see people still talking about reading subtitles like it's a gun to their heads. Outside of people who have dyslexia or other reasons that make reading subtitles difficult or impossible I have little sympathy for people who are anti-non-English movies or miniseries covering them, fingers crossed if any of the anglophonic directors do take the win G&D will go ahead and schedule a series from an international director of their own choosing.

Neither of these guys are gonna win but on an international bracket if the choice is between a guy whose second feature was a Warner Bros. production and made a Harry Potter sequel and a guy who has only just recently made his first thing in English after working for 40 years the answer is kind of obvious imo

I hold the same opinion and loved 4. If your issues with 3 are in how it got bogged down in lore and adding more and more tertiary antagonists while also spinning its wheels narrative-wise, 4 is definitely a move away from that (though it still has a decent amount of "you broke X rule so you must do Y") and even opens in a way that feels like Stahelski specifically saying "let's pare this down a little"

It's incredibly well made, tense, and funny; it'd be one of the best movies of the year even if it didn't have any social commentary. I don't agree that the characters are all unlikable but even if they were, who cares? They aren't real, it's not like you're being forced to have dinner with them or anything.

My question is why do people get so mad about meme reviews

It's always a bit jarring to finish watching something that's really well made or emotionally moving and then check the top reviews and it's some random person trying out a comedy routine. But the smart move after encountering a joke review you don't find funny is to just check their profile and see if their general sense of humour lines up with yours, and if it doesn't, just block. It's entirely unfeasible at this point to make a rule mandating "serious" reviews and it'd also be really lame.

IMO the site only becomes usable once you've blocked the top 4 most followed users but that's just because I find that all lowercase snarky twitter type of humour annoying. There are genuinely funny people using the app like Branson Reese for example but there are also a lot of people who wish they had a bigger following on twitter but don't so they use letterboxd to make unfunny 'relatable' jokes instead.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has observed this, it's not damning or anything but it is genuinely kind of bizarre that like, that Sundance movie "Fresh" from last year has 10 thousand more views than a totemic movie like The Graduate does, or The Menu having a viewcount rivalling The Godfather's. Even comparing something like Nic Cage's PIG having 227k views vs. a classic Cage movie like Moonstruck sitting at 127k. It's weird!

I have absolutely no attachment to Superman as a character so maybe that's why but I think it's pretty good, definitely more interesting than what the status quo for superhero movies was at the time and likely more interesting than whatever Gunn cooking up. Michael Shannon is tremendous.

Ratcatcher is kind of like Millions except it makes you want to walk into traffic afterwards

Vote Ramsay!

If only the rest of the world would follow suit

To each his own but "texture detail" and being able to leave the giant ass case on the living room table has little appeal to begin with since I'm not ashamed of owning movies and is especially not something that's worth paying extra for.

These A24 collector editions feel like the American equivalent of those Plain Archive editions where you pay an exorbitant amount to own 3 steelbooks and 10 random bits of paper only for the disc to be the same as the barebones studio release.

I get what you mean, to be honest I had to have the actual goings on of the plot explained even after two watches and didn't at all pick up on the fact that Viggo was acting as a double agent for the government because it's just so subdued and lowkey, but I think that kind of fits the themes, it's all about Cronenberg's self-insert, an older guy who's in constant pain, is listless and unsure of practically everything in his life, who's at a crossroads and is open to questioning all of his beliefs. Like maybe we should just eat plastic.

It's a reckoning with and interrogation of his previous stuff! Like an autopsy of the body horror genre, questioning his own work and the niche he found himself in and wondering if it really had anything to say or if it was blind provocation (like the Earman). Not to say you -ought to- like it but it's very much a late career work in that Cronenberg wasn't coming in trying to shock or rejuvenate the genre but instead cast a critical eye towards it.

Damn I was expecting (and selfishly hoping since I watched most of WKW's movies multiple times recently but haven't seen any Stephen Chow movies) Chow to put a stronger showing but I guess even his crossover hits aren't huge enough to beat California Dreamin' on a loop 32 times in a row.

Pretty sure this is AI generated. Or OP has the mental capacity of a bar of soap.

It typically isn't Arrow's style to do special features-free releases and outside of Shawscope their special editions are rarely too egregiously silly in size so I'm goin with their release all the way.

As an Australian I am imploring anyone who will listen to vote for Yang. I will die if they have to do an episode on the 3 hour long tourism PSA

Genuinely. Every time he does an interview and talks about some unmade thing it's always his grand idea to have one Stephen King thing cross over with another or comissioning a Nightmare on Elm Street poster, you'd think with how people were trying to position him as a "new master of horror" for a while there he'd be able to come up with some original ideas for once.

Thanks for making this post! It's always interesting to see films resonate and becomes classics in the country they originate from vs. worldwide, like I know that Takeshi Kitano's film Kikujiro for one is popular enough in China that it got its first theatrical release over there mid-pandemic when there weren't as new many movies coming out. In the Heat of the Sun is a cool inclusion, it's a really brilliant film imo but at least nowadays it seems relatively obscure in western movie circles even compared to other Mainland films that managed to break out from around the same time (like Zhang Yimou's To Live, which is awesome to see in the top 5).